Victoria Macdonald
Government publishes mandate for health service
The government publishes its plans for what everyone should expect from the NHS – Labour dismisses it as a “wish list”.
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Hospital beds: who’s lying where, FactCheck wonders?
NHS beds are free flowing and not over occupied, the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, claims. Are they? FactCheck investigates.
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Victoria Macdonald
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Lindsey Hilsum
Official harmony – but ordinary Chinese are pushed to the side
As China’s congress meets to choreograph a seamless leadership changeover, there is much proletariat grumbling over the divide between rich and poor.
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There he goes again, as Romney insults the poor
It is not going well for Mitt Romney. His efforts to get his campaign back on course have been derailed by a leaked video piling scorn on Obama’s supporters for being too poor to pay tax.
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Victoria Macdonald
Acute hospitals on the brink of collapse
Bad news for the newly installed health ministers from the Royal College of Physicians which warns in a report that patient care is threatened by hospitals under strain.
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FactCheck: Cuts to Disability Living Allowance
Rightly or wrongly, the government has taken steps to curb the trend of rising spending on DLA. About half a million people will be affected.
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Public sector outsourcing: the political connections
In the final part of our special series into the private companies who run some of our public services, Channel 4 News looks at the connections between the firms and government.
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Gary Gibbon
Tim Yeo gets personal
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Tim Yeo’s very personal attack on the Prime Minister strikes a chord with a lot of Tory MPs.
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Tomlinson pathologist struck off after years of blunders
The pathologist who wrongly said Ian Tomlinson, who died in the 2009 G20 protests after being pushed to the ground by a police officer, had died of a heart attack is struck off.
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Single anxious females: why they’re backing Obama
There is not just a gender gap in American politics: there is a gender chasm. Women – or at least single women – are overwhelmingly pro-Democrat. But why? And could that change?
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Mitt Romney picks Ryan as running mate
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney picks Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, as his running mate for November’s election.
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Russia condemned for its futile fight against Aids
Russia has one of the fastest growing HIV rates in the world but as Victoria MacDonald reports, its reluctance to use harm reduction programmes among addicts is fuelling the spread of the disease.
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Watching with Murray
Seventy-six years of hurt, four sets and 24 hours since we all cried with Andy Murray, how are we all doing? Lindsay Taylor writes for Channel 4 News on the loneliness of the long-distance tennis fan.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Militias threaten Libya’s post-elections future
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on how the militias who helped overthrow Gaddafi, are now terrorising Libya’s people.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Libya prepares for first post-Gaddafi national elections
Libya’s first post-Gaddafi elections are going ahead, but is that wise given the amount of weapons in private hands, asks Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
